Horse-spreading device



(No Model.)

L. G. HAGUE & W. P. BULLES. HORSE SPREADING DEVICE.

No. 443,362. Patented Dec. l23, 1890.

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LUKE G. I-IAGUE AND IVILLIAM I. BOLLES, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS,

HORSE-SPREADING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,362, dated December 23, 1890.

Application iiled September 27, 1890. Serial No, 366,344. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, LUKE G. I-IAGUE and WILLIAM P. BoLLEs, of Bloomington, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Spreading Devices; and We do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates more especially to improvements in boots, composed of a strap or straps and pads and adapted to be buckled or fastened on a horses leg, and to which an ostensible interfering or spreading feature is joined or attached*as, for instance, in our 'previous patent of issue May 20, 1890, No. 428,485.

The object of the device is twofold: first, to make more secure the boot to the leg of the horse and render its adjustment and wear more easy, and, secondly, to provide a iirm and more economical method of securing the interfering or spreading feature to the boot. These objects we attain by certain features of construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 are perspective views of the boot or device, in which similar letters refer to similar parts.

The two straps (markedAA) have ordinary buckles ct a and small Xed pads B B on the inner side of the straps and extending each way under the buckles, and are provided with loops b b on the exterior sides of said pads and in front of the buckles, the purpose of the loops being to keep the straps in line and prevent their slipping from the pads.

The enlarged pad (marked C) is a prominent feature of the boot and serves a triple purpose, being constructed in such manner as to be an excellent pad on its inner face c, as clearly shown in Fig. 1,While the exterior side d of the pad, as in Fig. 2, is adapted to receive through a central opening e, Fig. 2, and to firmly secure by suitable means, as rivets ff, Fig. 2, the spreader feature E of the boot. The outer side of the said pad C is also slotted, as g g, Fig. to provide for the passage of the straps A A on each side of the spreader, and likewise to secure the pad to the straps. The straps A pass through the slots g g in such manner as to allow a sliding movement of the straps therein. The fixed pads B are rigidly secured to the straps A in such manner as to allow a space between the ends thereof and the edges or sides of the pads C. The horizontal exible spreader has a spiral center, as shown at fm, Fig. l, and a solid head or cap, as at 71., Fig. l, and a leather or rubber cover, or it may be made of solid rubber.

Having fully described our invention, what We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The improved horse-spreader boot having two or more straps A, pads B, secured to said straps,provided with loops l), pad O, having slots g to receivel the straps A, and a central opening e to receive a exible spreader, consisting of a spiral-wire center and a cover extending at right angles from the boot, substantially as shown. y

2. In a horse-spreading device, the sliding pad C, the fixed pads B B. provided with loops b b, formed on the outside ofthe fixed pads and in front of the buckles to prevent the straps from slipping from the pads, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LUKE G. HAGUE. VILLIAM P. BULLES.

IVitnesses:

SAIN WELTY, S. R. GRIFFITH. 

